{"id":1276,"date":"2022-06-11T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/careful.online\/?post_type=docs&p=1276"},"modified":"2022-11-28T14:05:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T14:05:34","slug":"what-is-a-handover","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/careful.online\/docs\/what-is-a-handover\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a \u2018Handover\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Handover transfers responsibility and actions to another user<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careful.online\/docs\/support\/handovers\/\">Handover<\/a> is a key concept in CAREFUL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Handover is designed to transfer <a href=\"https:\/\/careful.online\/docs\/support\/responsibility\/\">responsibility<\/a> for the patient, along with any outstanding <a href=\"https:\/\/careful.online\/docs\/support\/what-are-actions\/\">actions<\/a> quickly and seamlessly from one user to another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Note: <em>Handover<\/em> and <em>handoff<\/em> are the same thing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In some countries and organisations, handover is sometimes referred to as &#8216;handoff&#8217; or as &#8216;sign-out&#8217;. We use &#8216;handover&#8217; consistently in this documentation, but you may see &#8216;handoff&#8217; if you are using CAREFUL in a country where &#8216;handoff&#8217; is more commonly used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A handover is not complete until it is accepted by the receiving user<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A successful handover involves three steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The <em>sending<\/em> user selects a patient or group of patients<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Handover is sent by the <em>sending<\/em> user<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The handover is then accepted by the <em>receiving<\/em> user<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The handover can be <a href=\"https:\/\/careful.online\/support\/how-to-reject-a-handover\/\">rejected by the receiving user<\/a> &#8211; in which case the handover is not completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The handover can be <a href=\"https:\/\/careful.online\/support\/how-to-cancel-a-handover\/\">cancelled by the sending user<\/a> &#8211; in which case the handover is not completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">There are three ways to select patients for handover<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can select patients for handover in three ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/careful.online\/support\/how-to-handover-an-individual-patient\/\">A single patient <\/a>from the <a href=\"https:\/\/careful.online\/docs-category\/patient-profile\/\">patient profile<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/careful.online\/support\/how-to-handover-all-my-patients-in-a-team\/\">All of <em>my patients<\/em> in a team<\/a>, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/careful.online\/docs-category\/team-view\/\">team view<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/careful.online\/support\/how-to-handover-all-my-patients\/\">All of <em>my patients<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/careful.online\/docs-category\/team-view\/\">My Patients view<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See also the <a href=\"https:\/\/careful.online\/docs-category\/handovers\/\">handover section<\/a> of the support guide <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You can send multiple handovers, but not for the same patient.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A patient can only be handed-over from one user to one other another. If you try to handover a patient a second time, you will receive an error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are a member of two teams, you can send a handover request for the patients in one team to one colleague and the patients from another team to another colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can receive multiple handovers, including for the same patient<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are sent a handover request for a patient and accept, you can receive another handover request from another user for the same patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason this is important, is that this can consolidate actions from many users to a single user. For instance, a patient may have many people looking after them during the day and only one person at night. Each day-shift team member can &#8216;send&#8217; the patient a handover to the night-shift team member, which will include their actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When they are all sent, the night-shift team member will have <em>all<\/em> the actions from <em>all<\/em> the day-shift team members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handover transfers responsibility and actions to another user Handover is a key concept in CAREFUL. Handover is designed to transfer responsibility for the patient, along with any outstanding actions quickly and seamlessly from one user to another. 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